History Vocab Week 2
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- Judith Sargent Murray
- author of On the Equality of the Sexes
- Noah Webster
- wrote Blue-backed Speller. Thought kids should learn from American books
- Washington Irving:
- famous for “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow†and "Rip Van Winkle"
- Deism
- radically revised version of Christianity
- Revivalism:
- Second great awakening. Cleansed American societies of its iniquities
- Second Great Awakening
- expansion of church membership. Lasted 50 years Second Great Awakening
- Charles G. Finney
- American newspaperman, story writer, and fantastical novelist
- Eli Whitney
- Inventor of the Cotton Gin
- Robert Fulton
- Worked on Canal, Submarine, and Steam navigation. Made the steam boat
- Clermont
- given name†to Fulton’s steam boat
- "Turnpike Era":
- Improved roads that were weather proof
- Pierre L 'Enfant
- Created blueprints for the city of Washington
- Jeffersonian democracy:
- Created for the people of America. Anti-federalists created it
- We are all Republicans; we are all Federalists!
- Thomas Jefferson First inaugural address
- Albert Gallatin
- Secretary of Treasury
- Barbary Pirate [Tripolitanian] Wars:
- first war waged by the United States outside national boundaries after gaining independence and unification of the country
- Marbury v. Madison (1803)
- established the doctrine of judicial review
- writ of mandamus
- introduced to prevent disorders from a failure of justice
- judicial review
- created 58 new judgeships
- John Marshall
- Chief Justice in the Supreme court
- Samuel Chase
- join the American confederacy and appointed commissioner
- Toussaint L'Ouverture
- the hero of the French revolution
- Louisiana Purchase:
- The Area of land which Napoleon sold to the Americans
- Lewis & Clark Expedition
- finding a land route to the Pacific
- Sacagawea
- Helped Lewis and Clark with translating to the Indians
- Zebulon Pike
- assigned the reconnaissance of the upper Mississippi River
- Essex Junto
- opposed the radicals in Massachusetts in the American Revolution. Supported federalism
- "Burr Conspiracy":
- Assassinated Alexander Hamilton.
- Continental System:
- forbade trade with Great Britain on the part of France, her allies, and neutrals
- Berlin Decrees (1806)
- declaring the British Isles under blockade and forbidding any trade to or from them
- Milan Decree (1807) :
- authorized French warships and privateers to capture neutral vessels sailing from any British port or from countries occupied by British armies
- impressment
- the act of forcibly conscripting people to serve as sailors
- Chesapeake-Leopard Affair:
- June 22, 1807, the British warship HMS Leopard attacked and boarded the American frigate USS Chesapeake
- Embargo Act of 1807:
- in answer to the British orders in council restricting neutral shipping and to Napoleon's restrictive Continental System
- Macon's Bill No. 2:
- intended to motivate Britain and France to stop seizing American vessels during the Napoleonic Wars
- Gen. William Henry Harrison
- first governor of Indiana
- Tecumseh
- boycotted the treaty conference at Greenville
- "War Hawks"
- called for war against England
- John C. Calhoun (SC)
- Secretary of War and later on Vice President with John Quincy adams
- Henry Clay (KY)
- appointed Secretary of State by President John Quincy Adams
- "Mr. Madison's War":
- Nickname fore the war of 1812 (second war of independence)
- Francis Scott Key:
- was given the mission along with American Agent for Prisoner Exchange Colonel John Stuart Skinner to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes of Upper Marlboro
- Battle of New Orleans:
- Ratified the Treaty of Ghent
- Andrew Jackson
- Took Possession of Flordia
- Hartford Convention
- made to consider the problems of New England in the War of 1812
- Treaty of Ghent (1814):
- U.S. and Britain would return to the same state of affairs as before the war
- Rush-Bagot Agreement (1818):
- Created the un protected large border between Canada and America
- John Quincy Adams
- Secretary of State and later one became the 4th president
- Marbury v. Madison (1803):
- established the doctrine of judicial review
- writ of mandamus:
- introduced to prevent disorders from a failure of justice
- Cultural nationalism
- increasing belief in America
- The Prophet, Tenskwatawa
- Religious and political leader of the shawnee
- Second Bank of the US
- Replaced the first one with a bigger stronger one
- National Road
- first improved highway
- Tariff of 1816
- placed to reduce competition in america
- era of good feelings
- parties got along
- First Seminole War
- Florida wars
- Adams-Onis Treaty
- agreement between the United States and Spain that settled a border dispute
- Panic of 1819
- First financial crsis
- Tallmadge Amendment
- Missouri Compromise
- Missouri Compromise
- agreement between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions
- A fire bell in the night
- letter to thimas jefferson
- Fletcher v. Peck
- case for land to private speculators in return for bribes.
- Dartmouth College v. Woodward
- case dealing with the application of the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- case in Maryland taxing Bank OF UD
- Cohens v. Virginia
- US supreme got power to review state supreme court decision after this case
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- United States Supreme Court ruled that the power to regulate interstate navigation was reserved to Congress
- Johnson v. McIntosh
- Supreme Court of the United States held that private citizens could not purchase lands directly from Native Americans.
- Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
- series of laws which stripped the Cherokee of their rights
- Worcester v. Georgia
- United States Supreme Court held that Cherokee Native Americans were entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments.
- Monroe Doctrine
- proclaimed the United States' opinion that European powers should no longer colonize the America
- "King Caucus"
- informal meetings in which American congressmen would agree on who to nominate for the Presidency and Vice Presidency from their political party
- American System
- conomic plan consisting of a high tariff to support internal improvements such as road-building, and a national bank to encourage productive enterprise and form a national currency
- Corrupt Bargain
- charges by partisans of Andrew Jackson that John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay conspired to deny Jackson the presidency
- Tariff of Abomination
- protect industry in the northern United States from competing European goods